Freedom and Other Maladies

Gholam-Hossein Saedi was an acclaimed Iranian author, playwright and screenwriter with an oeuvre that contains more than thirty publications. Freedom And Other Maladies depicts Saedi's restless passion and heartbroken demise based on letters that he wrote over the years as well as interviews with his close friends and associates. The documentary film focuses on the last four years of Saedi's life in Paris, at the peak of his suffering, painfully aware that he would die in exile.

• Shirin SaghaieDirector
• Shirin SaghaieWriter

• Gholam-Hossein Sa'edihimself (footage archive)
• Reza AghnamiCast
• Bahman Aminiself
• Ali Badriself
• Mohammad Jalai Chimehself
• Hedayat Matin Daftariself
• Soheila Ghassemlouself
• Manouchehr Hezarkhaniself
• Nasser Pakdamanself